The Urbanist Podcast: Choosing Among Seattle’s Public Schools
It is spring of 8th Grade in the Dubicki household, so we have been investigating options on where to attend high schools. Seattle Public...
Seattle Officials Tout Safety, Mental Health Interventions for New School Year
City and school officials promise a tangible change in safety and student supports when the new school year begins. But they're delivering fewer mental health investments than student groups requested.
Dubicki: Save Seattle Schools, Dissolve the District
To be upfront, I am pissed at Seattle Public Schools. As a parent of school-age kids, I have been subjected to SPS’s anti-union propaganda...
Southeast Coalition Seeks Community Hub in Othello
At the southwest corner of Othello and Martin Luther King Jr Way, a stone’s throw away from the Othello light rail station is a...
Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 1: What It’s All About
Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle’s urban village strategy. For the the 22 independent indicators,...
School Board Directors Are Begging Seattle to Allow More Housing
A majority of the Seattle School Board joined the push for additional neighborhood growth centers last week, pointing to a link between additional housing density and stable student enrollment.
Op-Ed: Closing Seattle Schools Is Still a Bad Idea
Last week school board director Liza Rankin wrote a memo to her colleagues suggesting a major new round of austerity for the Seattle Public Schools that could revive a plan to close numerous schools. Robert Cruickshank argues that's the wrong approach.
As Seattle Public Library Sees Funding Restored, Survey Seeks Input on Library Hours
When voters overwhelmingly passed the most recent update to Seattle's public library levy in 2019, expanded hours at all 26 neighborhood branch libraries was...